Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appears that Seattle's A. J. Ritchie and friends and their society of Jap haters (TIME, April 16) have missed several potentialities in their plan. They've got something that could be made into a big thing. Why stop at hating just Japs? Thousands of our boys will come from the Western Front hating the Germans. Ritchie could get these men together with all the whites who hate the Negroes, the gentiles who hate the Jews, the Southerners who hate the Yankees, the Northerners who hate the Miamians, the isolationists who hate the British, the Texans who hate...
...last Jap holds on the Philippines were being pried loose. On Mindanao last week two U.S. Army divisions were pressing close to Davao. A second landing was made on Negros. Major General Innis P. Swift's I Corps, racing the rainy season that starts in mid-May, stepped up its drive over the razor-backed ridges of northern Luzon and captured Baguio, summertime capital of the islands...
Intelligence officers estimated that 40% of Japan's plane production was gone, that 50% of metropolitan Tokyo, 20% of Kobe and Osaka, more than 10% of Nagoya had been burned out. 6-293 have destroyed 395 Jap planes in the air, racked up another 301 probables, smashed 106 on the ground...
Last week on le Jima, Ernie Pyle, 44, met death from a Jap machine-gunner's bullet...
Died. Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, 44, most beloved of U.S. war correspondents; by Jap machine-gun fire; on newly invaded le Jima (see PRESS...